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In 1953, a CIA officer, Frank Olson, died in suspicious circumstances. It has been suggested that Donald Rumsfeld was, in 1975, involved in a cover-up of the events surrounding the death. The Guardian

During his time as Reagan's Special Envoy to the Middle East (November 1983 – May 1984), Rumsfeld was the person who supplied American military intelligence, hardware and strategic advice to Saddam Hussein.

Rumsfeld sat on the board of ABB from 1990 to 2001. ABB is a European engineering firm based in Switzerland. In 2000 this company sold two light water nuclear reactors to KEDO for installation in North Korea.Donald Rumsfeld - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rumsfeld was co-author of a document from the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) called "Rebuilding America's Defenses". It sought a traumatic event that would lead to total American domination of the world through military and financial supremacy. Rumsfeld a Criminal Co-conspirator of the 9-11 USAF Stand Down

Sunday, October 29, 2006

"There is enough food, but people don't have enough money to buy it," says Anuradha Mittal, executive director of the Oakland Institute, a U.S.-based policy think tank. "Drought and locusts did not cause the 2005 food crisis as many believe," Mittal said. "It is a result of free market-based development strategies of the World Bank and others." Sudan Niger Famine'We're going to raise tariffs, and freeze our currency, and block capital flight.' And everybody looked away in horror—and then a year later they were doing better than anyone else.The Collapse of Globalism

Dr Mahammed Anif told Newsnight that the UK and US had wanted an "excuse" to invade Afghanistan. A Taleban spokesman denied claims that the Taleban had burnt down many schools. (UK shadow defence secretary Liam Fox wants censorship?)Tories criticise BBC over Taleban

Yahoo.Shi Tao was sentenced to 10 years in prison for e-mailing details of the Chinese government's plans to handle news coverage of the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.Yahoo! provided crucial information in the case, linking the message and e-mail account with Shi 's computer. Reporters Without Borders accused Yahoo! of acting as a "police informant".http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article1932749.ece

Mr Halevy 's Mossad career is a world away from the happy childhood he enjoyed in north London. He... attended Hackney Downs School... Lord Levy, who doubles as Tony Blair's Middle East troubleshooter when not raising Labour Party loans, attended the school, and Mr Halevy has met him several times in Israel... "Tony Blair has a realistic view of the position of Israel and he has the interests of Israel at heart."The man from Mossad

In 1911, the Italians bombed Libyan civilians from the air. In 1912 the French began bombing Moroccan civilians from the air. In 1913 the Spanish began bombing Moroccan villagers from the air. They later used poison gas. In 1915 the British began the aerial bombardment of Pathan villages on India’s North-West Frontier. In 1919 the British bombed Afghan civilians from the air. The British aerial bombardment of Dacca killed 600.Over 90 years of terrorist activity by western countries.http://www.brushtail.com.au/july_04_on/bombing_arabs_history.html

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Ayr has been tipped as an unlikely hotspot for global travellers. The seaside town in western Scotland was voted one of the world's top 10 "hot" destinations next year, achieving a higher ranking than Marrakech in Morocco and the Greek island of Naxos in research based on web searches and travel site postings. TripAdvisor said Ayr "can brace itself for a major influx of visitors from around the world next year".Ryanair - the world's least favourite airline

Monday, October 23, 2006

Sharon Smith has written about the Fifth Anniversary of the US Attack on Afghanistan:"The victory over the Taliban in 2001 involved striking a deal with the same warlords and mass rapists who ruled Afghanistan before the Taliban seized power in 1996...

"With drug-trafficker Gen. Mohammed Daoud installed as Afghanistan's Deputy Interior Minister, it is not surprising that Afghanistan is now supplying up to 92 percent of the world’s heroin.

"Meanwhile, “Afghanistan’s people are starving to death,” according to the Senlis Council, the British think-tank, last month...

"Karzai’s cabinet recently resurrected the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice -- the Taliban’s notorious religious police renowned for beating Afghan women."

"By perpetuating Thatcherite selfish capitalism, Blatcherism has spread the affluenza virus. Small wonder that some of its key proponents are suffering from mental illnesses.

"The affluenza virus...

"I define it as the placing of a high value on money, possessions, appearances (physical and social) and fame. In samples from 14 different nations, people who have the virus are significantly more likely to suffer from depression. They also have higher rates of anxiety, substance abuse (how does Campbell relate his ex-alcoholism to his depression?) and narcissistic personality disorder (which may be Fry's true diagnosis).

Sunday, October 22, 2006

America's Media-Driven Descent Into DepravityWhite Dot quote the American Academy of Pediatrics,"During the first two years of life children need good, positive interaction with other children and adults. Too much television can negatively affect early brain development. This is especially true at younger ages, when learning to talk and play with others is so important."

Natasha said the school failed to stop the bullying and even made her feel she was to blame.

A survey conducted by the charity, Bullying Online shows that seven out of ten pupils have been bullied at school.

The survey, of 8,500 children, parents and teachers, showed two thirds of those bullied were sometimes afraid to go to school as a result and more than half said teachers failed to stop bullying after it was reported to them.

Natasha's mother Candace listed the abuse she suffered as "spitting on her, throwing rocks at her, following her home from school, taunting her, threatening her, tripping her up as she walked between classes, pushing her downstairs".

Her father said the family repeatedly reported incidents to the school but after initial positive steps, the authorities appeared to "wash their hands of the problem".

A spokesman for Surrey County Council said: "The school's record on bullying is exemplary. It was an isolated case that nobody could reasonably have predicted."

Two girls involved in the attack were sentenced on Friday to 12 month community orders after being convicted of perverting the course of justice.

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We know some British teenagers who do not know the name of the capital city of their own country.They can barely read and write.

Yet they are of average intelligence.

British state schools are bad and getting worse. Many should be closed down.

A re-think of education is required.

All schools should be run privately by non-profit making trusts.

All schools should be small.

The school day should be about 3 hours.

The school leaving age should be around 12.

Much more use should be made of apprenticeships, learning by computer, and 'special' schools.

BBC 1 television should show educational programmes only.

Mothers of young children should stay at home and not go out to work.

According to an article in the Daily Mail, 1 June 2006, more than half of school leavers have problems with the basics:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=388516&in_page_id=1770Hundreds of thousands of teenagers have such poor mastery of the three Rs they cannot scrape a grade C in the two subjects employers and parents regard as crucial. They are finishing compulsory schooling without the literacy and numeracy skills they need to "participate in life, learning and work" despite a raft of multi-billion pound Labour initiatives...And the inability of pupils to get good grades comes despite widespread suspicions that exams have been dumbed down in recent years...Forty-two per cent of pupils finished 11 years of compulsory education without achieving at least a grade C in GCSE English which means they struggle to read and summarise information accurately or use basic grammar...Forty-eight per cent - or 301,671 - failed to reach the same standard in GCSE maths meaning they are unable to calculate the area of a room.A total of 54 per cent - nearly 350,000 - fail to achieve the expected level in both English and maths. The official exams watchdog, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), says pupils need to meet grade C standard - so-called "level two" - to function as citizens...Just 46 per cent leave school able to read, write and add up properly. ~~

A three hour school day; a school leaving age of 12

The 1819 Factory Act in the UK limited the working day for children in cotton mills.

What we need now is a Schools Act limiting the school day to three hours.

I would suggest that school hours could be 9 am to 12 noon.

Very few children can concentrate on school work for more than 3 hours per day.

When children are not at school they can enjoy being children.

Interests will vary:

1. Children can work at home or in libraries on interesting homework projects. It would help if every child was given a computer.

2. They can join clubs involved in everything from sport to music to carpentry to journalism ....

3. They can become apprentices in safe and interesting occupations.

4. They can explore their world.Mothers of younger children will be able to spend more time with their offspring.

East Timor has oil. It suffered “regime change” – when its leader adopted policies in opposition to the American and Australian political elite and its corporate allies. And the BBC was on the side of the American and Australian elite.Regime Change in Timor-Leste, the ousting of Mari Alkatiri

According to Constant, the US military attaché and the local CIA station chief were inside the Haitian military headquarters when the army staged its coup in '91.

1992

Constant has stated that Col. Patrick Collins, of the U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency, pushed him to organize a front that could balance the Aristide movement and do intelligence work against it. This resulted in Constant forming what evolved into FRAPH in August 1993. Who Will Rid Me of this Turbulent Priest?

1993

From 1993-1994, Constant was the leader of the FRAPH death squad which reportedly murdered hundreds of Haitians...

Constant claims that he was part of covert American policy to undermine the exiled President Aristide, who was viewed as too radical by the United States.

Constant attended, on invitation, the Clinton inauguration balls in 1993....

"By perpetuating Thatcherite selfish capitalism, Blatcherism has spread the affluenza virus. Small wonder that some of its key proponents are suffering from mental illnesses."

Is it just love of money?

What about the loss of faith in Britain as a respectable country in which to live?

Think of the failures of Britain's institutions: think of the lies and violence that ooze from the mainstream media; think of the killings of innocent civilians by the military and the police; think of the corruption within government; think of the breakdown of discipline in schools....

What are the solutions?

1. The best way to stay happy and healthy is to get some exercise! Get on your bike or go for a walk. Sing a happy song Un Nouveau Jour va se lever !

2. Switch off the TV when the news comes on. Watch a good comedy video.

3. Never again vote Labour or Conservative. Kick out the war criminals.

4. Remember that there are still some good things about Britain: Polish dentists, Indian restaurants, French footballers...

Here is part of the article on Thomas Mann which Google seems to object to:

According to Gilbert Adair, Mann was not the first writer to be attracted to Adzio. "At a wedding of one of his aunts- for which, as garcon d'honneur, he was turned out in lace of a fetchingly creamy blanc d'ivoire- the six year-old Adzio caught the eye of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the ...Nobel Prize winning author of....Quo Vadis. Leaving the church in his landau, the doting Sienkiewicz insisted that the infant come perch upon his knees, only hurriedly to offload him when he discovered that his Tiepolesque seraph had peed down the leg of his morning suit."This was an article based on books by several respected authors.http://pierrejoubert.blogspot.com/2005/03/flirting-boys-and-peeing-down-legs-of.html

"Around 70 assaults, thefts and incidents of vandalism were reported on city buses every month, with about 100 assaults on drivers reported every year."

Rural Scotland

Oct 19 2006

TEEENAGERS ON RAMPAGECaravanners say the teenagers are rampaging through the caravan park from midnight until as late as 4 am.

A caravan owner said: “Sometimes there are between 15 to 30 youths drinking and taking drugs and going on the rampage. If we try to reprimand them they threaten us. One even threatened to cut my throat when I went out to stop them kicking a ball against the caravan."

On the occasions the caravan owner has contacted the police to complain, nothing happened.Justice Minister24 Feb 2005http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=207592005"Scotland's justice minister Cathy Jamieson strongly denied helping a relative evade the law."While the Labour MSP transferred £100 to the bank account of nephew Derek Hyslop - who was on the run from police at the time - in July 1999, she has stated that she had no idea he was wanted by police."Hyslop, a drug addict who had just killed a woman in a robbery in Derby, was later jailed for manslaughter. Jamieson said the money was meant for her nephew’s baby."MICHAEL HOWARD &THE DRUG BARON'S PARDON

"John Reid shared centre stage at his son's wedding - with a villain wanted by police.

"Tony Blair's most trusted minister and fugitive Ronnie Campbell - the father of the bride - stood side by side on the steps of Westminster Cathedral.

"The Sunday Mail can reveal a warrant was issued for the arrest of Campbell, 47, on Monday after a violent incident involving a woman. Campbell, who sported a gold cravat and kilt, was the target of a recent gangland hit."

Thursday, October 19, 2006

According to The Guardian, 25 October 2006, ex-CIA chief George Tenet, is to join the board of UK company Qinetiq,which is partly owned by the Carlyle Group.The Carlyle Group has links to the Bush family and the bin Ladens.

'Qinetiq, the British defence and security technology company privatised this year, has appointed George Tenet - the CIA chief at the time of 9/11 - a board member...'

The company was spun out of the Ministry of Defence's research laboratory.

It will now develop closer links with US intelligence 'and take advantage of the boom in national security technology'.

'The MoD was criticised for its controversial £1.3bn flotation of the company in February, which made tens of millions of pounds for the chairman, Sir John Chisholm, and chief executive, Graham Love.

'Before the flotation, the government came under fire for selling part of the Farnborough-based company too cheaply. The Carlyle Group, a US venture capital company, bought 34% for £42m in 2003 and sold around half of that stake for £160m - about eight times what it paid. The Ministry of Defence remains the biggest shareholder, with 19%. Carlyle holds 10%.'

'Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, who last week became a policy adviser to David Cameron, the new leader of the Conservative Party, is set to make around £400,000 from the controversial flotation of defence research group QinetiQ.'

In February 2002, Christian and Muslim factions signed a peace accord in Malino, Sulawesi.

Laskar Jihad, the militant Islamic group accused by many as fueling conflict in Maluku, refused to attend the Malino talks.

Reportedly many members of Laskar Jihad had previously fought with the Taliban and with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

There have been reports that Indonesian special forces regiment Kopassus have worked with Laskar Jihad.

Some have suggested that Laskar Jihad was set up by the Indonesian military in order to do its dirty work.

Kopassus officers have been trained in the USA.

A report from Dr Damian Kingsbury of Deakin University states that: Kopassus members were involved in the training of the notorious Laskar Jihad near Bogor in West Java, a group which has been responsible for the deaths of many thousands in Central Sulawesi.

A lifestyle of casual violence, complete with uniforms, is taking root on urban streets in the UK, reported Stuart Wavell in an important article in The Sunday Times (UK) on 15 October 2006.

Wavel wrote:

The lawless gang of which Danny and Ricky Preddie were members when they stabbed 10-year-old Damilola in November 2000 continues to wreak mayhem...

This does not say much for the effectiveness of the London police or Blair's Labour government.

Wavel continues:

Mike Presdee, head of criminology at Kent University, has studied the Peckham Boys and other teenage gangs over many years. He says they talk about their street confrontations in terms of unscripted drama performances which they improvise...

Their father, Alfred, emigrated from Jamaica to Britain in 1966 to become a shopkeeper and married twice, siring many children before his death in 2004. Their mother, Marion, was described as a fiery woman of Jamaican origin. The boys dropped out of school and were effectively left to fend for themselves. Yes, fathers are important. Yes, upbringing is important.

The cruelty such children inflict on vulnerable youngsters not only enlivens their dull lives, but reflects society’s increasing insensitivity to violence, Presdee believes. “Most of us have seen someone killed through the media. Vicarious experience is no longer enough.”

Yes, the media must take a lot of the blame for the spread of violent crime.

Wavel continues:The psychotherapist Camilla Batmanghelidjh has observed the metamorphosis of individuals and the escalating level of violence during the 11 years since she founded Kids Company...In her experience, the process begins in infancy with a disruption to the loving relationship with a maternal figure that develops those areas of the brain responsible for social behaviour. “It could be that the maternal carer is very stressed or drug-addicted, so she becomes desynchronised with the child.”

Yes, mothers are important.

Wavel continues:

Add constant exposure to abusive situations and a state of terror sets in. “These kids will tell you that they can’t calm down. They can’t sit still or sleep, and need action. They find it very difficult to concentrate at school.”

Damilola

The government scientist could not see the blood.

Some years later, a private testing company could see the blood.

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Damilola Taylor, aged 10, died in 2000.

In 2006, a forensic scientist, Sian Hedges, told the court she did not know how she missed a spot of Damilola Taylor's blood during the murder inquiry back in 2000. ( Scientist missed Damilola 'clue' )

The blood was 'on the heel of a trainer''.

That blood was found in 2004, when an inquiry into Damilola's death reopened.

The trainer is alleged to have belonged to one of the Preddie brothers.

Ros Hammond, of private testing company Forensic Alliance, said she saw the bloodspot with her naked eye, and had found it on a photograph taken by Ms Hedges, once it was enlarged.

"It seems they had not identified the blood staining," Ms Hammond told the Old Bailey.

The spot of blood, which appears to have fallen from above, was less than a centimetre wide.

Ms Hedges, who worked for Home Office agency the Forensic Science Service, told the trial she had found two blood spots and tested the rest of the trainer, but found no other blood.

She said: "I performed the tests as they are in my notes. I do not have any other explanation."

Shown the trainer in court, she agreed she could see the blood stain on the heel.

The prosecution said the new evidence points "with certainty" to the participation of the three accused in the attack on Damilola. Reportedly, spots of blood and fibres link three youths to the killing of schoolboy Damilola Taylor.

April 2006

Two teenage brothers were found not guilty of the murder of Damilola Taylor at the Old Bailey on 4 April 2006 but the jury could not reach agreement on the lesser charge of manslaughter. On 3 April 2006, Hassan Jihad was found not guilty.

The comments on a BBC programme are dated April 2002 and refer to the 2002 trial.

* I cannot understand how vital evidence was not told to the jury, for instance a fragment of glass, from the bottle that killed Damilola, was found in the trainer of one of the boys. But the judge ruled that the jury should not hear it. Another example was how one of the boys admitted to the killing of Damilola, but this was not heard.

* Having watched the excellent Panorama programme on the trial I'm amazed that no one (or agency) has been able to stop the activities of this seemingly well known gang "The Untouchables".

* Clever educated manipulation of a working class jury has, I suspect, allowed guilty parties to go free. I have no love for the police service as I consider it sadly inept.

* At the end of the programme we heard how one of the accused confessed, then the judge decided not to let the jury hear this confession because the boy was upset.

"Bin Laden and the CIA and a Mr Hekmatyar are reputed to have been involved in the Afghan heroin business. Bin-Laden allegedly established branches of his business in the Cayman Islands; and he allegedly employed law firms and consultants connected to Langley, Virginia and the CIA."Should I sell my daughter?

Who wrote this?If Prophet Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ishmael, Joseph, or Jesus Christ were with us today, how would they have judged such behavior? Will we be given a role to play in the promised world, where justice will become universal and Jesus Christ will be present? Will they even accept us?http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1772198,00.html

"Sarkozy's major political supporters are tied to the Russian-Israeli-Ukrainian mafia that has been capitalizing on the Iraq war, nuclear proliferation involving the A Q Khan network, diamond smuggling financing of 'Al Qaeda', and drug smuggling..."Meanwhile, neocon media are spinning the story that Mexico's leftist presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has slipped to second place in polls that have shown him as much as 10 percentage points ahead of his two rivals."International neocon ploy to discredit anti-US politicians

"We're looking for keen campaigners, people who will spread the word, write articles, blogs, letters. It really is a critical time for the orangutan, and the millions of people who's livlihood is threatened by the total land clearance brought about by plantation development, have a look at our photo albums to see some of the extent of the damage."http://www.cockroach.org.uk/

Sudan oil'The Chinese and Sudanese government forces have driven large segments of the population off the oil rich land... BP Amoco has launched a joint 'retail company' with PetroChina...'http://www.rense.com/general70/spawn.htm

SEX?"A time bomb is primed to go off under the Blairs. Or so the Mail assured us on 22 April, as it has been assuring us since September 2003. Originally, we were told the explosive device would be Carole Caplin's memoirs; now Caplin's mother, Sylvia, a medium, is dictating (appropriately enough) to a ghost writer. Either way, we are promised revelations about Leo and his MMR jab, and about how the Blairs consulted the spirit world on the location of Saddam Hussein's WMDs (so what? It makes as much sense as asking the intelligence services). It is hard to see that these disclosures can bring down the Prime Minister. But the Mail also insists, repeatedly, that we shall get details of Carole's "intimate" friendship with him, and if he survives the honours scandal, he won't survive that. The Mail's readers' ribs must be sore from all this nudging. What is being implied here? I think we should be told." Peter Wilby

Venice Airport was named during the questioning of Oliver North during Iran Contra. Venice was the teeny little place where Mohammed Atta and his fellow 'hijackers' chose to learn to fly.Venice has the building that was the national HQ of billionaire Jackson Stephens's Beverley Enterprises. According to www.madcowprod.com , "Jackson Stephens was a roommate of President Carter at the US Naval Academy. Stephen's name has come up in a number of spooky cases: in the BCCI criminal bank scandal, in the case of the death of Vince Foster, in the stolen Promis software scandal, in the 1996 finance scandal involving allegations of Red Chinese money, in the gun-running and cocaine smuggling at Mena Arkansas that was behind Iran Contra and Whitewater."Nona: FLORIDA

Ahmadinejad's has renounced nuclear weapons as contrary to Islam and has repeated Iran's 30-year commitment to the Non-Proliferation TreatyThe Confusion of Tongues